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First things first: staff engineering is a leadership role. A staff engineer often has the same seniority as a line manager.

two and about 10 to 12 engineers.

Googlers working in engineering or product management can nominate themselves for promotion.

Zurich, Switzerland, when a mechanical engineering department split a staff of 25 into a project pool of 22 with, on average, 3 engineers available to deal with questions from past work, emergencies, sales proposals, procurement questions, etc., the productivity noticeably increased.